Senior Security Engineer

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office.

ECS Federal is a leading information security and information technology company in Washington, DC. We are looking to hire a Lead Security Engineer to support a full range of cyber security services on a long-term contract in Washington DC. The position is full time/permanent and will support a US Government civilian agency. The position is available immediately upon finding a qualified candidate with the appropriate background clearance.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to ensure that deliverables are completed on time and within the acceptable quality standards.
• Report to management achievements of team as well as performance issues.
• Work with customer to obtain engineering requirements, manage tasks, and ensure that deliverables are meeting client’s expectations.
• Design and develop cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled
• Design hardware, operating systems, and software applications to adequately address cybersecurity
• Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs and ensure that appropriate technical and procedural processes exist for secure system backups and protected storage of backup data.
• Develop and direct system testing and validation procedures
• Develop detailed security design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.
• Develop Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans for systems under development and ensure testing prior to systems entering a production environment.
• Develop specific cybersecurity countermeasures and risk mitigation strategies for systems and/or
• Identify and direct the remediation of technical problems encountered during testing and implementation of new systems (e.g., identify and find workarounds for communication protocols that are not interoperable).
• Identify and prioritize essential system functions or sub-systems required to support essential capabilities or business functions for restoration or recovery after a system failure or during a system recovery event based on overall system requirements for continuity and availability.
• Identify, assess, and recommend cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products for use within a system and ensure that recommended products are in compliance with organization's evaluation and validation requirements.
• Implement security designs for new or existing system(s).
• Incorporate cybersecurity vulnerability solutions into system designs (e.g., Cybersecurity Vulnerability Alerts).
• Perform risk analysis (e.g., threat, vulnerability, and probability of occurrence) whenever an application or system undergoes a major change.
• Design, implement, test, and evaluate secure interfaces between information systems, physical systems, and/or embedded technologies.
• Design, develop, integrate, and update system security measures that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• Design to security requirements to ensure requirements are met for all systems and/or
• Develop mitigation strategies to address cost, schedule, performance, and security
• Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in
• Trace system requirements to design components and perform gap
• Verify stability, interoperability, portability, and/or scalability of system

Salary Range: $145,000- $165,000
General Description of Benefits